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>But to say that "the only way" to do anything on the web is the height of hubris, and closed-mindedness. How will you know when the next great thing comes along, if you've already committed yourself to an "only way?"

It's not the only way to do web development. But it's the only way to structure UI for an application. It's the pattern native developers have settled upon and used for decades. That's why it's been so frustrating for me waiting to see this paradigm come to web development. It's what iOS/Android/MacOS developers have enjoyed for years.

The tooling is finally mature now, and it's actually fun to develop for the web these days. But before the modern React/Babel/Webpack development environment, it was really tough to build large scale maintainable SPAs without massive expertise. There were things like GWT, Closure, Backbone, etc. But the sort of "batteries included" UI frameworks and IDEs that developers enjoyed in native development was nonexistent on the web until recently.

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import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button'; export MyComponent = ({actions}) => ( <Button variant="outlined" color="primary" onClick={actions.save} > Save </Button> );